PODCAST · religion
The Almighty Ohm
by Al Ohm
Welcome — where resistance meets resonance.This is a space for those of us who don’t fully believe, but can’t fully turn away either. Who question everything—God, healing, knowledge, self—but keep searching anyway.Almighty Ohm is for the in-betweeners. The resistors. The thinkers who feel, and the feelers who think. This isn’t about arriving. It’s about tuning in—through the noise, through the doubt, to that quiet hum underneath it all.
Episodes
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On Truth and Lies
on truth and lies by nietzsche read by me
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The Crisis of Reflection 😔🪞 Diagnosis of Our Lot.
State of the channel. Updates and insights.
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The Death of Myth & The Crisis of Identity: Why Modern Images Leave Us Hungry
Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail Us In this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth. Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images, and...
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The Educated Imagination and the Boy Who Read Nietzsche in North Bay
How dyslexia, bilingualism, and myth created a Canadian identity no one expected. An imagined appendix to Northrop Frye’s The Educated Imagination, based on a true story from Northern Ontario — where a bilingual, dyslexic teen survived the failures of Canada’s education system by reading…
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A New Grammar Of Images.
I discuss what Charlie Chaplin said about talkies versus his silent era - and Werner Hertzog and his belief that we lacked adequate images. His search, our search? For A New Grammar of Images. I language that fits with our humanity?
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Becoming More: How a Human-AI Dialogue Revealed the Deepest Truths About Creativity and Connection
It began with a simple question: What podcast would an AI want to listen to? What unfolded was far more than an answer — it was a moment of co-creation between carbon and silicon, soul and circuit. In this essay-podcast, we explore how a free version of ChatGPT and one curious human stumbled into…
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The Deep Attention Crisis. And How Listening Can Save Us
Three generations have been failed by systems that reward speed over thought and performance over presence. This is a trauma-informed, research-backed protocol that begins with The Little Prince and ends with reclaiming your capacity to think. For children, parents, educators — and the adults who...
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Chosen for What? Reclaiming Chesed and Human Dignity in Hasidic Thought
Hasidism teaches that God’s love—chesed—is boundless and unconditional. Yet some interpretations within Hasidic and Kabbalistic thought create a paradox: Jews are said to possess a unique, divine soul, while non-Jews have only a “natural” soul. This essay challenges that view, arguing that it...
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Hineni: The Gospel of Uncertainty How Embodied Presence Prepares Us for Collapse
Most theology begins after the trauma. This one begins before it. In this manifesto, I offer a path of embodied mysticism, where doubt is sacred, inflammation is prophecy, and presence—not certainty—is our greatest form of faith. This is not about belief. It's about attunement. It’s about showing...
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The Ship and the Snow: Rebuilding the Canadian Soul
A philosophical meditation on Canadian identity as perpetual becoming—exploring how a nation built through trauma and transformation embodies the sacred act of relation over conquest. --- Keywords: Canadian identity, national mythology, Ship of Theseus, collective trauma, I-Thou relationship,...
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The Perfect Storm: How AI Misinformation Nearly Ended Me and What I Learned.
This is the true story of how AI medical misinformation nearly killed me while I was discovering a breakthrough treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases. I've been researching connections between cancer, autoimmune diseases, and chronic inflammation for years. When I found rupatadine - an...
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Doubt, Peterson, and the New Digital Agora.
I discussed doubt Faith education authenticity all the good stuff
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Generational Grammar: The Hidden Language of Connection
Why can’t we connect in 2025? It’s not just words—it’s generational grammar. Forget the dictionary’s rules. Marshall McLuhan saw grammar as how media shapes our minds, from print to TikTok. I go further: it’s a generation’s ethos, purpose, truth. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z—we’re speaking...
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Reintegrating the Self in a Fragmented World
In a world fractured by injustice and misunderstanding, one survivor’s journey through dyslexia, trauma, and neurodivergence becomes a rallying cry for wholeness. This metamodern manifesto weaves personal defiance with a proto-transcendentalist vision, offering embodied learning, storytelling…
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Utility vs. Value: Why What Matters Can’t Be Measured
In a world driven by algorithms, productivity, and performance, are we forgetting what truly matters? This essay explores the battle between utility and value—the logic of tools versus the logic of meaning. Drawing on philosophy, trauma-informed insight, Buddhism, economics, and lived experience,...
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Lost in Translation: The Crisis of 2025
Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha—nobody’s connecting. It’s not just generations; healthcare, science, philosophy, religion are all in turmoil. In Generational Grammar: Decoding the Divide, we expose the lack of good faith and authenticity driving this mess, with a Gen X lens and Nietzsche’s...
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The Hidden Celtic Soul of Christianity
Welcome. Today, I’m fired up—I’ve been reading about the Druids, those Celtic sages of old, and it’s got me thinking: what if everything we know about Christianity’s roots is missing a massive piece? We’re always hearing about the Greeks—Plato, Augustine, the logos—but what about the Irish? What…
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Camus and Creativity.
A recording from the archive. Enjoy. Al.
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Faith, Trust, and the Hijacking of Language: Why Meaning Matters in a Post-Trauma World
Why does it feel like we’re spiritually adrift, linguistically disarmed, and unable to trust anything—including ourselves? Because language has been hijacked. This episode reclaims words like faith, trust, religion, and Dharma, exposing how misused terms distort our healing and hide our trauma.…
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The Hidden Philosopher Behind Steve Jobs' Stanford Speech | Nietzsche & the Eternal Return
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech changed lives — but beneath the stories of failure, love, and death lies a deeper philosophy almost no one talks about. This isn’t just Stoicism. This isn’t just mindfulness. This is the eternal return. This is Amor Fati. This is Nietzsche — the...
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The Rare Air Manifesto
A myth-in-motion for those living at the edge of disciplines. This is a call to collaborators, mentors, and grasshoppers—from a polymath who has walked through fire and come back with a map. Personal Development Philosophy Trauma-Informed Systems Thinking Mental Health Interdisciplinary Polymath
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Nietzsche Interviews Almighty Ohm: A Conversation on Modernity
Join us for a profound and thought-provoking podcast episode where the legendary philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, drawing from his seminal work Twilight of the Idols, engages in a deep conversation with Almighty Ohm, a modern-day storyteller and healer. Centered around Nietzsche’s “Critique of...
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We Don’t Think Anymore: Why the Real Crisis Is Cognitive, Not Political
Everyone’s arguing over politics, education, technology, and ideology — but what if the real crisis is deeper than all of that? In this episode, we explore how modern society is losing its capacity for thinking itself. From McGilchrist’s divided brain theory to McLuhan’s media prophecy and Allan...
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The Brain’s Forgotten Hemisphere: Healing in a Fragmented Culture
In a world that praises logic, speed, and efficiency, something ancient is quietly slipping away: awe. This talk/essay explores how secularism, once a noble shield against dogma, has hardened into a faith of its own—one that worships control and quantification while exiling reverence, ritual, and...
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The Future of Learning Is Plural, Not Binary
What if the way we learn isn't just through words and pictures—but through movement, emotion, rhythm, and story? In this essay, I introduce Plural Coding Theory, a model that expands on Paivio’s Dual Coding and brings in insights from psychology, education, philosophy, trauma studies, and...
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More Than Words: How True Prayer and Meditation Shape How We Live
Prayer is not a performance. Meditation is not an escape. Both are acts of alignment. Across Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist traditions, prayer and meditation were once daily acts of remembering, aligning, and living truthfully—not private rituals or self-help tools. This essay explores how we've...
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The Atypical Mind: How Visual Thinkers, Split Brains, and Trauma Survivors Teach Us to Learn Differe
What if the way you learn is also the way you heal? In this deep-dive essay, we explore the minds of Temple Grandin and Iain McGilchrist alongside lived experience to challenge outdated ideas of “normal.” From visual thinking to hemispheric integration, we uncover how atypical minds aren’t...
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Faith Without Commitment Is Not Śraddhā
This video explores the real meaning of śraddhā in Indian philosophy and why we must resist the Western dilution of faith into opinion or sentiment. I speak from decades of study and lived practice—and I’ve watched as even respected Eastern teachers now echo colonized ideas of “good” and “bad”...
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Tech Isn’t the Problem—Engagement Is: Why Audiobooks Are the Future of Literacy
Everyone’s blaming phones and screens for the literacy crisis—but what if we’ve been asking the wrong question? This essay challenges the myths from Maryanne Wolf, Mark Manson, and Jonathan Haidt, showing how audiobooks and audio-first learning can unlock real focus, comprehension, and deep...
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The Endurer’s Manifesto: Practice in the Middle of Chaos
You survived. That was not an accident. This manifesto is for the ones who endured—when the medical system failed, when the mind betrayed itself, when the world demanded silence. You didn’t just survive a rare disease, or systemic neglect. You survived meaninglessness—and now you are ready to…
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Beyond Names, Beyond Labels: Walking the Mystic Path to God
In a time when every institution—religious, political, academic—has fractured under the weight of disillusionment, this essay charts a new way forward: not by discarding tradition or embracing blind progress, but by walking the ancient and timeless path of the mystic. Weaving personal insight…
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The Inflamed Mind & Long COVID: The Science They Don’t Want to Talk About
“What if depression isn’t just in your head—but in your immune system?” — Dr. Edward Bullmore, The Inflamed Mind What if your depression isn’t psychological—but inflammatory? In this explosive episode, we connect the dots between Dr. Edward Bullmore’s book The Inflamed Mind and the ongoing…
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Jordan Peterson Is Wrong: We Don’t Need Another School—We Need to Relearn How to Think
Jordan Peterson says his Peterson Academy will fix our broken education system. Even Joe Rogan pushed back. In this episode, we break down why Peterson’s solution is just another silo, repackaging the same old top-down teaching that got us here. This isn’t about building new institutions—it’s…
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The RCS Messaging Bug That Broke My Phone: A Hidden Threat to User Security and Trust
When a simple attempt to delete a message thread locked me out of texting anyone, I discovered a major flaw in Google’s RCS messaging system—one that Google hasn’t fixed, acknowledged, or documented. This isn’t just a glitch—it’s a security design failure with real-world consequences, and it...
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Boomers vs. Gen Z: The ‘60s Reborn, But Our Grammar’s Lost
The ‘60s were a revolution—Boomers clashed with their parents, rewriting the rules. Now, in 2025, Millennials and Gen Z are fighting Boomers, who hold power. But this isn’t just tie-dye vs. suits. Soaring rents, a burning planet, and a lost grammar of identity—it’s the ‘60s reborn, but we’re...
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PSIRS: The Hidden Link Between Trauma and Chronic Illness (And How We Heal)
What if the pain you feel in your body isn’t just “in your head”—but your head is inflaming your body? Ths episode introduces PSIRS—Psychological Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome—a new framework explaining how trauma, grief, and emotional distress can trigger physical inflammation and...
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The Switch They Didn’t Tell Me About: Why Healing Requires Rebellion
When my medication was quietly swapped out without warning—twice—it triggered more than a flare-up. It reminded me just how broken our medical system really is. In this debut episode, I talk about the quiet war chronic illness patients fight just to stay stable, the importance of medical agency,...
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What Is the Self That Cannot Be Named?
This is the first invocation—a spoken-word manifesto tracing the journey of a soul shaped by misnaming, misreading, and mystical insight. From a childhood marked by dyslexia and identity confusion to a lifelong search for meaning through language, resistance, and transformation, this is the story...
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The Human First Protocol: A New Way to Learn That Puts People First
What if the education system is failing not because of students—but because it forgot the human at the center? The Human First Protocol is a revolutionary approach to learning designed for real people—not outdated institutions. Built on neuroscience, trauma-informed teaching, dual coding theory,...
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From Skin to Soul: Reclaiming the Self in a Fragmented World
What if your body was speaking a language your mind never learned to hear? In this episode, I share a personal journey that began with chronic skin issues and led to unexpected clarity — not just physical, but cognitive, emotional, and spiritual. We explore how symptoms like inflammation…
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The Real Reason Tech and Schools Are Failing Us. A Metamodern Solution.
Why do kids hate reading? Why is AI so hard to talk to? Why does it feel like apps, schools, and governments are built for machines—not humans? In this powerful breakdown, I share a deeply personal and visionary framework for how we got here—and how to fix it. From trauma-informed design to...
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Go Set a Watchman: The Warning We Refused to Hear
Harper Lee didn’t betray Atticus Finch — she revealed the hard truth we didn’t want to face. In this episode, we break the silence around Go Set a Watchman and reclaim the wisdom the world tried to cancel. Real justice demands hard truths, not empty slogans. Atticus knew it. We ignored it. Now we...
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Before the Break: A Living Philosophy for Healing, Wholeness, and the Human Self
This is not self-help. This is self-remembering. Drawing from trauma theory, inflammation science, embodied wisdom, philosophy, and lived experience, Before the Break offers a radical reimagining of what it means to heal. It proposes that healing must begin before harm, that education should…
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Shades of Healing: From HS to Hard Truths – Thinking Past the Wallow
Caught in a storm of hidradenitis suppurativa, government Kafka, and a world obsessed with victimhood, I hacked my way to near remission—no docs, no mentors, just gritty, dyslexic stubbornness. This ain’t self-help fluff—it’s real talk on agency, authenticity, and thinking your way out. From a...
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"Breaking the Barrier: How Biofilm Disruption May Be the Hidden Key to Healing Chronic Inflammation"
In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most overlooked aspects of chronic illness—biofilm, the microscopic fortress that protects pathogens and disrupts the body's healing processes. Discover how disrupting biofilm—through antihistamines, methylene blue, and smart protocols—can…
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When the Sacred Becomes a Prop: The Cost of Faith Without Devotion
A powerful reflection on the difference between wearing faith and living it. In this thought-provoking piece, we explore how sacred religious symbols—like the uncut hair in Sikhism—can be misused when treated as campaign aesthetics rather than spiritual commitments. When a public figure lets down...
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Discernment in the Age of Noise: A Metamodern Manifesto
What if the future of philosophy isn’t found in a new ideology — but in a return to our deepest discernment? In this episode, we explore a radical, living vision of metamodernism — not as an academic trend, but as a soul-level response to the failure of both modernity and postmodernity. Drawing...
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The West Wash of History.
I discussed how we tend to get our history so very wrong and yet when we realize how very wrong we were it often takes decades before we write the ship so here I talk about the interaction between Greek Buddhism Indian Buddhism Egypt and the trade routes opening up truly our history and arguing...
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No Room for Hate: Love as the Fulfillment of the Law
In a world where theology is often weaponized and love is conditional, this message returns to the heart of Christ’s teaching: the Shema fulfilled through radical love. Exploring the connection between loving God, loving neighbor, and learning to love ourselves rightly, this talk challenges the...
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From Ultra Learning to Ultra Thinking: Reclaiming Depth in an Age of Shallow Education
In this episode, we challenge the hype around “ultra learning” and the surface-level metrics of modern education. Drawing from personal experience with open courseware, deep study in Buddhism, trauma healing, language, and contemplative practice, we explore what it means to go beyond performative...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome — where resistance meets resonance.This is a space for those of us who don’t fully believe, but can’t fully turn away either. Who question everything—God, healing, knowledge, self—but keep searching anyway.Almighty Ohm is for the in-betweeners. The resistors. The thinkers who feel, and the feelers who think. This isn’t about arriving. It’s about tuning in—through the noise, through the doubt, to that quiet hum underneath it all.
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Al Ohm
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Welcome — where resistance meets resonance.This is a space for those of us who don’t fully believe, but can’t fully turn away either. Who question everything—God, healing, knowledge, self—but keep searching anyway.Almighty Ohm is for the in-betweeners. The resistors. The thinkers who feel, and the...
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